The street voice

Fruit Art: " La Boquería "

The Mercado de La Boquería
in Barcelona
is one of the most important and
most visited market in Europe

There is something of magic in fruit art…that inspired a lot of painters but designers too…

You can find a lot of fruit poster that remember a fruit market.

Here we show you just some ideas on how art or inspiration can begin from real life..

In my opinion art lives in Bouqueria’s market

where people represent their daily life.

All is a unique mix of colours
and
"gaudy"...armony

A game made by equilibria...

Give a look here

Foto by A.M. Bonora for D+Arch

...And enjoy Boqueria’s colours ....

Comics by Emilio # 3

Italian Genius Now. Back to Rome

"Italian Genius Now. Back to Rome"

Roma, Macro Future
fino al 13 aprile 2009

"Italian Genius Now", l’originale format espositivo tutto rigorosamente e orgogliosamente Made in Italy , che abbina design e produzione artistica contemporanea, "torna" a Roma.

La "mostra itinerante" sulla genialità della creatività italiana, dopo il tour asiatico (Hanoi, Singapore, Seul, Tokio, Taipei e New Delhi), è al "Macro Future" fino al 13 aprile, prodotta dal Centro per l'arte contemporanea "Luigi Pecci" di Prato in collaborazione con il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e il Comune di Roma.
La rassegna è un omaggio al "talento del genio creativo italiano" nell'arte e nel design, talento che negli ultimi cinquant'anni ha innegabilmente ispirato e rivoluzionato abitudini e stili di vita nel mondo. Un esempio? La mitica "Vespa GS 150" della Piaggio (quella di «Vacanze Romane»), divenuta uno dei maggiori simboli della cultura di massa.
Un allestimento che suggestiona con "accostamenti" e "tracce" sparse tra arte, architettura, moda e design, che si legano e fondono in un unico linguaggio nazionale, il "Made in Italy": formula di successo mondiale, sintesi di qualità, capacità, sapere e genio artistico, geneticamente presente in ogni produzione.

In un momento di crisi, di assenza creativa e originale, di congelamento, è un'occasione per riflettere, da cui partire per una nuova scommessa e ricerca tutta italiana!

Andrea Facco, "Vespa 150 GS", 1955 - Courtesy Fondazione Piaggio,Pontedera (PI).

"Fiat 500", 2007 - Courtesy Biagiotti Progetto Arte, Firenze.

Mario Merz, "La spirale appare", 1990
Collezione Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato.

Gaetano Pesce, "Nobody's perfect", 2002
Courtesy Zerodisegno.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaGiorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi, Riccardo Rosso, "Pratone", 1971 bbaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaCourtesy Gufram, Balangero (TO).

Vanessa Beecroft, "Holy Family VB SS 010 MP", 2006

Courtesy Galleria Lia Rumma, Milano.

Alida Cappellini e Giovanni Licheri, "Life savers" e "Shangai Boulevard"

Miami Swing by Renzo Arbore), 2007 - Courtesy Mirabili Arte d'Abitare.

Per informazioni:
www.macro.roma.museum
www.centropecci.it

Opere di: Carla Accardi, Aurelio Amendola, Archizoom, Marco Bagnoli, Nanni Balestrini, Lorenzo Banci, Roberto Barni, Carlo Bartoli, Massimo Barzagli, Vanessa Beecroft, Luca Bertolo, Umberto Buscioni, Achille e Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi, Riccardo Rosso, Giuseppe Chiari, Fabrizio Corneli, Vittorio Corsini, Corradino D'Ascanio, Andrea Facco, Roberto Fallani, Carlo Fei, Salvatore Ferragamo, Isabella Gherardi, Piero Gilardi, Stefano Giovannoni, Giulio Iacchetti, Emilio Isgrò, Marco Lambri, Ketty La Rocca, Aldo Londi, Arrigo Lora Totino, Lucia Marcucci, Amedeo Martegani, Andrea Martinelli, Alberto Meda, Alessandro Mendini, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Marcello Nizzoli, Luciano Ori, Paolo Parisi, Gaetano Pesce, Lamberto Pignotti, Alfredo Pirri, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sara Rossi, Mimmo Rotella, Gianni Ruffi, Maurizio Savini, Tobia Scarpa, Paolo Scheggi, Sissi, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Gianluigi Toccafondo, UFO, Franco Vaccari, Massimo Vitali, Marco Zanuso, Gilberto Zorio.

Chapeau Plissè

You will find the web full of Luceplan advertisement..or read more on http://www.luceplan.it/ but mine is just a note...

I was walking in Milan and i found Plissè...this is like i found it in a famous city store window...

It is really suspended from two ceiling points on wire suspensions with a central ceiling rose and flex..

But i appreciated a lot Plissè just for one element: It can change its size.

There is really a double pantograph system that allows an easy extension of beam from a minimum of 60 cm to a maximum of 160 cm.

But it's like a joke: if you push it becomes smaller and smaller but if you pull it out

it's again bigger..

They invented the "Accordion-lamp "...:-))

Nice...so "Chapeau Plissè"

Graffiti in the Madrid Camper store

A.M. Bonora for D+Arch

One of the alternatives and Madrid ridden urban fashion shops is that
Camper opened in Calle de Fuencarral.
Imagination, functionality and sense of humor are the traits that define the brand's designs.
The store is realized like a blank canvas in its most literal sense:
customers can fill the white walls with their messages, drawings or ideas.
We don’t know if street art inspired Jaime Hayon in his Camper concept store project, but certainly the idea is taken from a metropolitan context:
our street are full of graffiti written on walls.
But anyone of us is often taken by a strange temptational voice inside:
<<...leave your sign on this wall and say “I’ve been here” or
“I’m alive” or... simply ..."I love you" ...>>

Barcelona Street Art: "The Sants' protest "

A.M. Bonora for D+Arch

“The Sants” is not just a name of the main railway station in Barcelona, but is largely a living and thinking quarter.

Since working class folk lived here a lot is changed but not the spirit.
As the workforce born in Sants build the Modernista dream homes

( this area of town helped create the wonderful architecture that we so enjoy today in the centre of Barcelona)

people who live there has always something to say.

This “murales” is a civil, artistic protest against the abuse of cement and the quarter transformation really never accepted from young people.
On the wall appears clearly “ Aturem destrucciò de Sants”

i.e.=” Let’s Stop De Sants’ Destruction”